When you dilute something, you make it thinner, weaker, or more watered down. If you put lots of ice cubes in your soda, the ice will melt and dilute the drink.
To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
Verb
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
Verb
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
Adjective
reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"
v. t.
To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with
something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
v. t.
To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by
mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to
attenuate; to weaken.
v. i.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes
easily.
a.
Diluted; thin; weak.
Dilute
Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.2.
Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
Dilute
Dilute
A dilute and waterish exposition.
To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak;
Diluted; thin; weak.
Usage Examples
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
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